SafeHull Express - speeding up ship design

摘要

A new version of SafeHull, the structural design evaluation tool from the American Bureau of Shipping first introduced in 1993, has been launched onto the market. SafeHull Express claims to enable tasks that previously took several weeks to be completed in less than 14 days; the prototype version is for tankers but a module for double-skin bulkers should be available early this year. SafeHull Express has been evolved in cooperation with shipyard naval architects, several of whom participated in the development team, also with the Finnish consultancy Napa Oy and MSC Software. The new package should provide seamless integration of classification software into the design process, generating approved designs more quickly and easily. To meet shipyard requirements for 3D CAD systems for production design and manufacturing, SafeHull Express brings the benefits of 3D into the earliest stages of the design cycle, as well as providing easy-to-use templates to generate geometry and scantlings of the main hull. A model can be automatically converted into a finite-element version without manual data entry.